One of the most striking things about the new Star Trek movie captained by J. J. Abrams is the way the warp drives of the ships just popped. It was a lot more forceful than the way Star Trek vessels traditionally went into warp, with a whining hum and a bunch of strechted-out lights. Don’t take my word for it, though — check it out in  Read More →

Water-filtering pitchers such as Brita Pitchers have become all the rage over the past few years, as they’re a relatively inexpensive way to filter the crap out of your tap water. But is there an even better way to filter your water? Maybe!  Read More →

That didn’t take long. We’re on day two of Apple’s Ping and it’s already showing the telltale signs of a social network being dirtied up. It doesn’t take long for prospectors to spot a potential gold mine, and by “prospectors,” of course, I mean no good dirty spammers.  Read More →

With the shuttle fleet due to retire and the Constellation program — which was going to give NASA an option in deploying personnel to orbit and beyond — entirely scrapped , all eyes have been on what NASA will work on next. The agency has the answer.  Read More →

During his time on the International Space Station , astronaut Don Pettit captured what few of us terrestrials will ever get to see with our own eyes: the Earth from orbit. It’s a breathtaking sight, and Pettit was good enough to turn his snaps into a gorgeous time-lapse.  Read More →

Apple came out swinging with plenty of big announcements: a relaunch of Apple TV , some nice new iPods , and even a social networking service . Still, there are plenty of things Apple didn’t — perhaps even failed — to make official. Here are six of those.  Read More →

“Hobby,” my ass. As expected, Steve Jobs poked out of his magic turtleneck and presented us more cooler-than-thou iPods . And they are really cool. Regardless, today’s big news is for a product Steve Jobs once famously referred to as a hobby : Apple TV . Far from being an afterthought, the new Apple TV is a big deal, and it sets the stage for a future Apple product — an actual TV .  Read More →

Apple is having an event later today and we’ll be tweeting the news live as it happens on our Twitter feed . The instant updates start happening at 1 p.m. Eastern, so just give us a follow and start refreshing like crazy once the action starts. As a bonus, we’ll be giving away a prize to one lucky follower.  Read More →

After blaming users , besmirching competitors and finally offering a free iPhone 4 case to appease customers, rumor has it that Apple could relent in the biggest way: revising the antenna on the iPhone 4.  Read More →

When viewed as a tablet , ViewSonic’s new Android-based ViewPad is pretty reasonably sized at 7 inches. Heck, it might even be a little small. But then when you realize it has full phone functionality, it suddenly seems almost comically huge.  Read More →

Aging isn’t pretty. As we get older we gain weight, our skin gets less taut and we generally just get less attractive. It’s a sad downhill slide! But really, trying to stop it with these ridiculous anti-aging glasses is probably just going to make things worse.  Read More →

Here’s one for the iBro demographic I didn’t even know existed: the iBottleopener. It’s an iPhone case that’s also — wa-a-a-ait for it — a bottle opener. If there’s one thing I want my iPhone near, it’s the opening of a bottle where sticky beer pours out.  Read More →

Marquetry is a centuries-old art, but it’s almost always created using contrasting strips of fine wood veneer. New York based artist Theo Kamecke puts a beautiful spin on this process, by using the patterns contained in old printed circuit boards as his raw material.  Read More →

This bizarre contraption is a urinal that lets guys do their thing, then gives them a place to wash their hands without moving a step.  Read More →

Apple is justifiably proud of their so called “retina display” , but a new display technology promises to make it look like about as sharp as a worn out 1977 Sylvania Superset.  Read More →